Solar parks ease sheep grazing in China’s Qinghai province
A shepherd in Gonghe says access to a fenced solar park has reduced the work needed to tend his flock.
Some shepherds in China’s northwestern Qinghai province are finding it easier to manage their flocks as solar installations spread across the plateau under the country’s effort to diversify its energy mix.
Li Yonglin, 25, is among those permitted to let sheep graze for free inside a fenced solar park in Gonghe county. He said the arrangement had made grazing less demanding.
Li said he opens the sheep pen each morning and needs to do little supervision afterward. The animals return by themselves in the evening, when he puts them back in the pen.
